Florida Swimmers Chase Paris Dream at 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials

The U.S. Olympic Swim Trials will be held from Saturday, June 15 to Sunday, June 23 in Indianapolis, Ind.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Current, former and incoming Gators will compete at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials. The nine-day event will be held from Saturday, June 15 to Sunday, June 23 on a football field for the very first time inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind.

35 Gators will compete throughout the nine days of competition for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team. The maximum size for the U.S. Olympic swim team is 26 women and 26 men, which also includes relay swimmers. The team selection procedure is if a swimmer finishes in the top two of a race, while having an Olympic qualifying time, they will make the team (pending confirmation from the federation). Swimmers for freestyle relays are also chosen by their times at the trials.

Head Coach Anthony Nesty<https://floridagators.com/sports/mens-swimming-and-diving/roster/coaches/anthony-nesty/1669> will serve as head coach for the U.S. men’s swim team<https://floridagators.com/news/2023/9/21/mens-swimming-diving-nesty-named-head-coach-for-usa-mens-swim-team-at-2024-olympics.aspx> at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

GATORS COMPETING:

Former Gators:                        Current Gators:                                    Incoming Gators:

Men:                             Men:                             Women:                       Men:

Caeleb Dressel             Adam Chaney               Anna Auld                     Luke Whitlock

Bobby Finke                 Jake Mitchell                 Catie Choate                 Devin Dilger
Kieran Smith                 Gio Linscheer                Micayla Cronk               Women:
Women:                       Josh Parent                   Lainy Kruger                 Gracie Weyant
Isabel Ivey                    Caleb Maldari                Michaela Mattes            Sofia Plaza
                                    Andrew Taylor               Caroline Pennington      Addison Reese
                                    Bobby Dinunzio             Olivia Peoples
                                    Mason Laur                   Grace Rainey
                                    Macguire McDuff          JoJo Ramey
                                    Julian Smith                  Bella Sims
                                    Peter Bretzmann            Emma Weyant
                                    Amadeusz Knop           Julia Heimstead
                                    Sean Sullivan
                                    Billy Jones

Florida has five swimmers competing that have previously made a U.S. Olympic Team.

  *   Caeleb Dressel is one of the highly anticipated swimmers to watch. The Florida Gator looks to participate in his third Olympic Games after making history at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The seven-time gold medalist became one of five swimmers ever to win five medals at a single game. Dressel holds four American records in the 50-meter free (21.04), 100-meter free (46.96), 50-meter fly (22.35) and 100-meter fly (49.45).
  *   Bobby Finke will make his second Olympic trials appearance. The Florida alum won two gold medals in the 800-meter freestyle and 1500-meter freestyle events in Tokyo. Finke holds the American Records in both the 800-meter free (7:38.67) and 1500-meter free (14:31.59), which he set at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
  *   Kieran Smith is set to compete in five events (100/200/400 free, 200 back, 200 IM) at trials. The 28-time All-American took home bronze in the 400-meter free at the Tokyo Games.
  *   Jake Mitchell is set for his second Olympic trials. The Tokyo Olympian had an historical first trial. He had finished second in the 400-meter free, but didn’t swim a qualifying time. Two nights later, he swam the event again, but alone. The current Gator recorded a 3:47.95 time to mark a qualifying time and a spot on the Olympic Team.
  *   Emma Weyant earned her first Olympic medal in Tokyo. After winning the 400-meter IM event at trials, Weyant swam a 4:32.76 in Japan to earn a silver medal. She is set to compete in the event as well as the 200/400/800 free and 200 breast in Indianapolis.
  *   Freshman standout Bella Sims is listed 11 times on the physch sheet. At 16-years-old, Sims qualified for Tokyo as the second-youngest member of the 2020 US Olympic Team. The silver-medalist earned a spot on the 4 x 200-meter free relay team and was the lead off for the US in the prelims. She clocked a 1:58.99 split to to help the US advance to the finals, where the team finished second.
Additionally, At the 2020 Olympic Games, 91% of U.S. swimmers (48 of 53 athletes) competed collegiately; another strong collegiate footprint is expected on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team. Team USA swimmers earned 30 total medals – more than any other country at Games. American swimmers earned 11 golds, 10 silvers and nine bronze medals.

SWIMMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Session Start Times (ET): 11 a.m. Prelims / 7:45 p.m. Finals (varying based on broadcast needs). The trials will have 17 sessions distributed over nine days. With eight prelims and nine finals, every individual event contested at the Olympics will have a trial.

June 15 – Saturday

Prelims

Finals

Women’s 100M Butterfly

Women’s 100M Butterfly Semis

Women’s 400M Freestyle

Men’s 400M Freestyle Finals

Men’s 100M Breaststroke

Women’s 400M Freestyle Finals

Men’s 400M Freestyle

Men’s 100M Breaststroke Finals

June 16 – Sunday

Prelims

Finals

Men’s 200M Freestyle

Men’s 400M IM Final

Men’s 400M IM

Women’s 100M Butterfly

Women’s 100M Breaststroke

Men’s 200M Freestyle Semi

Men’s 100m Backstroke

Women’s 100M Breaststroke Semi

Women’s 200M Freestyle

Men’s 100M Backstroke Semi

Men’s 100M Breaststroke Final

Women’s 200M Freestyle Semi

June 17 – Monday

Prelims

Finals

Women’s 400M IM

Women’s 400M IM Final

Women’s 100M Backstroke

Men’s 200M Freestyle Final

Men’s 800M Freestyle

Women’s 100M Backstroke Semi

Men’s 100M Backstroke Semi

Women’s 100m Breaststroke Final

Women’s 200m Freestyle Final

June 18 – Tuesday

Prelims

Finals

Men’s 200M Butterfly

Men’s 100M Freestyle Semi

Men’s 100M Freestyle

Men’s 200M Butterfly Semi

Women’s 1500M Freestyle

Women’s 100M Backstroke Final

Women’s 100M Freestyle

Men’s 800M Freestyle Final

Men’s 200M Breaststroke

Women’s 100M Freestyle Semi

Men’s 200m Breaststroke Final

June 19 – Wednesday

Prelims

Finals

Women’s 200M Breaststroke

Women’s 100M Freestyle Final

Men’s 200M Backstroke

Men’s 200M Butterfly Final

Women’s 200M Butterfly

Women’s 200M Butterfly Semi

Women’s 1500M Freestyle Final

Men’s 200M Backstroke Semi

Women’s 200M Breaststroke Final

Men’s 200M Breaststroke Final

Men’s 100M Freestyle Final

June 20 – Thursday

Prelims

Finals

Women’s 200M Backstroke

Women’s 200M Butterfly Final

Men’s 50M Freestyle

Men’s 200M Backstroke Final

Men’s 200M IM

Men’s 50M Freestyle Semi

Women’s 200M Breaststroke Final

Women’s 200M Backstroke Semi

Men’s 200M IM Semi

June 21 – Friday

Prelims

Finals

Men’s 100M Butterfly

Men’s 50M Freestyle Final

Women’s 200M IM

Women’s 200M Backstroke Final

Women’s 800M Freestyle

Men’s 200M IM Final

Men’s 100M Butterfly Semi

Women’s 200M IM Semi

June 22 – Saturday

Prelims

Finals

Women’s 50M Freestyle

Men’s 100M Butterfly Final

Men’s 1500M Freestyle

Women’s 50M Freestyle Semi

Women’s 200M IM Final

Women’s 800M Freestyle Final

June 23 – Sunday

Prelims

Finals

Women’s 50M Freestyle Final

Men’s 1500M Freestyle Final

SWIM TRIALS FULL TV SCHEDULE:
Live coverage of the Trials will be available every night at 8. pm. ET on NBC, along with daily preliminary heats on Peacock at 11 a.m. USA Network will have same-day delayed coverage of prelims.

DATE

COVERAGE

NETWORK

TIME

Sat., June 15

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

6:30 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Sun., June 16

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

5 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Mon., June 17

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

7 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Tues., June 18

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

6 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Wed., June 19

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

7 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Thurs., June 20

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

7 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Fri., June 21

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

5:30 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Sat., June 22

Qualifying Heats

Peacock

11 a.m.

Qualifying Heats

USA Network*

6:30 p.m.

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Sun., June 23

Finals

NBC, Peacock

8 p.m.

Sat., June 29

Paralympic Finals

CNBC, Peacock

6 p.m.

Sun., June 30

Paralympic Finals

CNBC*

1 p.m.

*Taped coverage

OLYMPIC QUALIFYING TIMES:
For individual events at the Paris Games, there are two types – Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) and Olympic Consideration TIME (OCT), per World Aquatics. Swimmers who match or better the OQT in one or more individual events, qualify for Olympic competition automatically. Participating countries may enter two (2) athletes in the same event, only if both swimmers’ times are equivalent or under the OQT. The OCT threshold works differently. Should the OQT not yield a quota of 852 total swimmers, “World Aquatics will then invite athletes who have equaled or bettered an OCT, until the total quota of 852 athletes is reached.”

Men’s

Event

Women’s

Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT)
-2 Entries

Olympic Consideration Times (OTC)
-1 Entry

Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT)
-2 Entries

Olympic Consideration Times (OTC)
-1 Entry

21.96

22.07

50m Freestyle

24.70

24.82

48.34

48.58

100m Freestyle

53.61

53.88

1:46.26

1:46.79

200m Freestyle

1:57.26

1:57.85

3:46.78

3:47.91

400m Freestyle

4:07.90

4:09.14

7:51.65

7:54.01

800m Freestyle

8:26.71

8:29.24

15:00.99

15:05.49

1500m Freestyle

16:09.09

16:13.94

53.74

54.01

100m Backstroke

59.99

1:00.29

1:57.50

1:58.09

200m Backstroke

2:10.39

2:11.04

59.49

59.79

100m Butterfly

1:06.79

1:07.12

2:09.68

2:10.33

200m Butterfly

2:23.91

2:24.63

51.67

51.93

100m Breaststroke

57.92

58.21

1:55.78

1:56.36

200m Breaststroke

2:08.43

2:09.07

1:57.94

1:58.53

200m Individual Medley

2:11.47

2:12.13

4:12.50

4:13.76

400m Individual Medley

4:38.53

4:39.92

Swimming at the 2024 Olympic Games will be held at the Paris La Defense Arena, located in the city of Nanterre. Indoor swimming kicks off July 27 and runs through August 4; in total, 35 medal events will be competed. Olympic swimming competition concludes with the men’s and women’s open water (10km marathon swimming) races taking place August 8-9. The full Team USA roster for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be confirmed in July.

Gators who have currently punched their ticket to Paris:
Maha Amer – Egypt
Josh Liendo – Canada
Julie Brousseau – Canada
Jonny Marshall – Great Britain
Nicole Maier – Germany
Aleksas Savickas – Lithuania
Alfonso Mestre – Venezuela
Alberto Mestre – Venezuela

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